Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Painting rocks

Today was beautiful outside and do I decided we were going to do something outdoors. I also had the itch to paint and Sunshine had been asking to paint today. I knew just what I wanted to do... My friend has these rocks that are painted with the fruit of the spirit - Love, joy, peace... etc. She said she bought them but I knew I could copy them so miss Sunshine and I went to the driveway and picked out some rocks. I washed them and then she picked out the colors and we each painted one rock that color. Then I painted my words in white and when that was dry I wrote in each white letter with a fine point sharpie in a different color. I used Philippians 4:8 on mine - what we should be thinking on. I'm going to put them in my house, probably just scattered around as reminders. I painted one letter on each of Sunshine's rocks and spelled out her name. I love how they look and we had a great time being outside and painting together - win/win/win!!!
P.S. sorry about the poor photos. One is with flash and one without but neither is great.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Meet my family - Part 2

Happy Birthday to my sweet little Sunshine!! She is three today. What a wonderful amazing three years it's been. Watching her grow up has been one of the most amazing parts of my life. New tricks, new words, new concepts, new mischief - all of it is just so cool to see develop. She is my drama queen, and my social butterfly. She loves to be around people and to make them laugh. So many funny stories I could never list them all. Love my little Curly Top so much. Here are some of my favorite pics of her.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Pedicure friendly socks

I totally hate freezing my feet off because I have wet toenails and can't put my socks on. Our basement isn't finished and thats where we do our pedis at my house. Brrrrrrr!!! But I don't have to freeze anymore because I just made these socks for myself out of a pair of clearance knee highs I got at Target for $1.75!! I'll show you how hard this was to do - NoT!! I think the actual process took less than 10 minutes. Add in my newbie struggles and it changed the number slightly but I still did it in one sitting... each, lol!
Pic #1 - I put the sock on and used a permanent marker to draw a line across where my toes meet my foot. Then I drew lines down in between my toes. I took the sock back off and laid it flat making sure the lines were on top.
Pic #2 - I sewed back and forth a few times where I had marked the lines between my toes - but on the opposite side of the horizontal line. I started on the line and went toward the heel - I hope that makes sense. If you sew on top of the toe lines you'll just cut them off in the next step.
Pic #3 - cut off the socks where you drew the line between your toes and your feet.
Pic #4 - pretty toes, happy feet!!

Yes, Dave made fun of these but my toes do not like being in socks but my feet get cold so he can laugh all he wants - it doesn't hurt to wear socks anymore!!!